Guard or fence for eaves troughs



July 11, 1950 WALTON 2,515,027

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GUARD OR FENCE FOR EAVES TROUGHS Alston Walton, Baltimore, Md.

ApplicationNovember 20, 1946, Serial No. 710,990

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a guard or fence for eaves troughs, which isdesigned to prevent rubbish from entering the eaves troughs and cloggingthe same.

Such rubbish as leaves and birds nests, or anything that may get intothe eaves-trough will clog the trough and rain pipe connected thereto,with resultant overflow and corrosion of the troughs.

An object of the invention, therefore, is to provide a device that willovercome this difliculty as well as prolong the life of the trough, andprovide a guard that will replace a rain pipe strainer, thus permittinga larger opening in the trough and a larger rain pipe.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the inventionconsists of the novel details of construction, arrangement andcombination of parts more fully hereinafter described, claimed andillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of the wire frame embodying part of theinvention;

Figure 2 is an elevational View of the wire fabric welded to the frameshown in Figure 1, forming a complete embodiment of the invention;

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view of an embodiment of theinvention attached to an eaves trough with the stay wires bent outwardlyof the trough and Figure 4 is the same, with the stay wires bentinwardly of the trough.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the reference numeral ldesignates a wire frame having longitudinally extending strands H andalternately extending transverse strands l2 and I3 which are welded tothe strands II on the upper surface in parallel spaced relation to eachother, and these strands also secure the strands II in parallel spacedrelation to each other.

Welded to the frame ID on the top surface thereof is a sheet of wirefabric 14 which is slightly longer in width than the distance betweenthe outermost strands II.

In attaching the frame to an eaves trough IS, the ends l6 of the strands[2 are curved downwardly over the rear edge of the trough l5, and theends H, which are longer than the ends iii, are bent downwardly over thefront edge of the trough, and the frame is positioned at a rearwardlyinclined angle with relation to the trough, as shown in Figure 3. Theends Id of strands l3 are bent downwardly and inwardly of the rear 2edge of the trough l5, and the ends l9, which are longer than the endsl8, are bent downwardly and inwardly of the front edge of the trough I5,as shown in Figure 4.

From this construction, it will be seen that the transverse strands l2and [3 are alternately bent downwardly, inwardly and outwardly of thefront and rear edges of the trough l5.

The guards will be made of different widths for different widths ofeaves troughs, and the lengths can be made so that the sections will beeasy to handle, the strands l2 and It being bent upon installation ofthe guard on the troughs and the strap hangers for the troughs wouldfixedly hold the guard to the troughs at installation thereof.

It is believed that from the foregoing description, the structure andmethod of installation of the invention will be apparent to thoseskilled in the art, and. it is to be further understood that changes inthe minor details of construction, arrangement and combination of partsmay be resorted to, provided they fall within the spirit of theinvention and the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent is:

A device of the character described for use with an eaves troughcomprising a wire frame having longitudinally extending parallelrelatively spaced wire strands, transversely extendin parallelrelatively spaced wire strands secured to said longitudinally extendingwire strands, a wire fabric secured to said frame, the ends of saidtransversely extending strands adapted to be alternately bent downwardlyand inwardly and outwardly of said trough to attach said frame to saidtrough at an inclined angle thereto.

ALSTON WALTON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 571,711 Twist Nov. 17, 1896643,747 Martin Feb. 20, 1900 914,650 Feyler Mar. 9, 1909 1,732,058Martini Oct. 15, 1929

